Now I finally have the rear tang setting where I want it. I worked the past two days sanding and dry fitting the back the stock to get the action to just below the stock lines. Then I went to work on the front. It took several wraps of electrical tape on the barrel to get the front of the action to sit properly with stock lines and center in the "new" smaller barrel channel. Once that was complete, I didn't like the gap along both sides of the action front to back, seemed excessive to me. So I cut a full length piece of carbon, trimmed a hole for the rear headless bolt and a notch for the front. I mixed up a small batch of WS 206 and wet out the carbon fiber, put a "primer" coat of WS 206 on the stock inlet and laid in the carbon. I placed the action in the stock directly on the wet carbon and zip tied it in place with 4 heavy duty zip ties pulled tight with side cutters.
I was really anxious about this because there are a lot of notches, cutouts and miscellaneous doodads on an X-Bolt action.
I let it cure for 12hrs and popped it out this morning, because the anxiety was killing me.
Here it is fresh from the mold. You can see the pressure points and those with no pressure, the rear points are where the bolt release and trigger attach. The rear now has 4 plies of carbon fiber over the crack, 3 plies as weave and 1 ply as strands running longitudinal with stock, under this current ply. I will start the process of building up the front like the rear and then I will epoxy bed the front and rear of the action.
Right or wrong, here is where I am.
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